Is this Mold?

Mattyb said:

hmmm....i have some in almost all my tanks...mine are all eating well and doing good. i am pretty sure that its dry...i better check to see if it is fuzzy like mold.



-Mattyb

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metzgerzoo said:

Even if it's dry, it's probably still poop. T poop can look kind of chalky too. Also, just to bear in mind, mold will continue to grow at the source site and in the average T habitat can grow pretty quick, poop will not grow.

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ixiir said:

Hey all,

I'm a new T owner and I have to say that these boards have been invaluable so far.

I have a avic. versicolor who is about 1.5" - 2". I've noticed recently that in the substrate there are little white dots, kind of like the drippings off of a paintbrush. The dots are no bigger then a millimeter or two across. When I touch them, they smear like paint (its not paint). There aren't too many of them, probably half a dozen or so, and there are two on the side of the container. The T seems happy, is eating well, and I've been cleaning the left over cricket parts out of the cage pretty timely. There is also a pill bug who lives in the container (who just recently moulted actually). I heard that pill bugs eat mold. The substrate is dry, not bone dry, but not moist either. The substrate is damp around the water dish, but these white dots are more around the edges of the container. None near the water dish at all.

So what are these white dots? I'm not really qualified to make a guess, I'm very new to owning T's. Is it poop? mold? something to do with the pill big? some time of alien spore that is the precurser to invasion?

Thanks, and I've really enjoyed lurking around here.

-ixiir

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